Python Mentors
These are the current summer of code 2006 mentors (incomplete still) for the Python Software Foundation and what projects they're interested in seeing.
Mentors are listed in alphabetical order.
Simon Belak
[http://www.turbogears.org TurboGears] developer.
I am also interested in projects involving AI or WSGI.
Robert Bernstein
No info posted yet.
Ian Bicking
Web developer, [http://pythonpaste.org/ Paste], [http://sqlobject.org SQLObject], and a [http://blog.ianbicking.org blog]
I'm interested in web-related projects, particularly infrastructure involving [http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/ WSGI]. Education-related web projects would also be of interest to me.
Carl Bolz
No info posted yet.
Buddha Buck
Will mentor one Soya3d-related project.
Hye-Shik Chang
No info posted yet.
Janez Demsar
I'm one of developers of Orange [http://www.ailab.si], a large machine learning/data mining library for Python. I'd mentor students interested in developing new data mining widgets, adding new machine learning methods to the suite, interfacing it with other Python libraries or applications (like prolog, R, Matlab)...
Walter Dörwald
No info posted yet.
Jonathan Ellis
No info posted yet.
Clark Evans
No info posted yet.
Tague Griffith
No info posted yet.
Jim Jewett
- client-side web projects, particularly improvements to the plucker www.plkr.org distiller.
- standard library improvements (probably not new modules)
- access control/capabilities (to allow running untrusted code, or to sandbox for optimizations)
In all cases, well-documented (doctest OK, doesn't need to be LaTex), clean, easily maintained and extended will trump extra functionality.
Richard Jones
Developer of [http://roundup.sf.net/ Roundup], [http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi PyPI].
I'm interested in projects to improve Roundup or PyPI.
Jonathan LaCour
No info posted yet.
Jean-Baptiste Lamy
Maintainer of [http://www.soya3d.org/ Soya3d]. Will mentor one Soya3d-related project.
Robert Kern
I am mostly interested in projects that are of use for scientific development. Specifically, anything to do with numpy, scipy, matplotlib, Chaco, Mayavi, Traits, or IPython. More generally, I am also interested in mentoring projects of use to plotting frameworks, like math formula layout using TeX algorithms.
Andrew Kuchling
I can help mentor improvements to the standard library, some web projects, and documentation projects.
Travis Oliphant
I am interested in mentoring projects related to NumPy or SciPy. In particular I would be interested in mentoring a project to extract the essential elements of NumPy into a basic array object for inclusion into Python. A future NumPy would then inherit from this basic array object.
Arc Riley
[http://www.soya3d.org/ Soya3d] developer from Ithaca, NY. I've also worked with many free software multimedia systems and web frameworks for Python.
I can mentor one or two Soya3d related projects.
Armin Rigo
No info posted yet.
William Stein
I am interested in any projects related to making Python the best environment in which to do mathematics research and education. Specifically, I'm interested in mentoring a project to improve [http://modular.math.washington.edu SAGE].
Greg Wilson
No info posted yet.
Thomas Wouters
No info posted yet.
Blaz Zupan
Developer of [http://www.ailab.si/orange Orange], a data mining suite with Python scripting and visual programming interface that uses Qt and PyQt.
Interested in development of new data/text mining algorithms, new visualization techniques (including 3D and sterographics for data mining), new Orange data mining widgets, data mining in bioinformatics, and porting Orange to MacOS.